Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Breathing for Relaxation
This is a guided mindfulness of breathing meditation, designed to help you relax and release tension and stress. This meditation can help you to bring about a sense of focus, calm and wellbeing into your day.
Navigating People Pleasing
In this episode, David explores the roots of people pleasing and how it ties into Buddhist teachings on attachment and the need for approval. He shares insights on recognising this behaviour and offers practical ways to cultivate inner confidence and self-worth, freeing ourselves from the cycle of external validation.
Guided Meditation – Navigating the World’s Darkness with Our Light
In this meditation, David guides us in a compassion practice through the metaphor of a candle flame in darkness. This practice helps us to connect with our compassionate nature, and feel grounded, supported and motivated to remain a light amid the world’s troubles.
The Story of the Anger-Eating Demon
In this episode, David shares the classic Buddhist parable of the ‘anger-eating demon’ and some ways of interpreting this story, and approaching our difficult emotions and experiences in a different way for greater wellbeing and ease in daily life.
Guided Meditation – Starting Your Day Right
This is a guided meditation designed to help you start your day with mindfulness, a sense of grounded presence, and by thinking ahead and reflecting on how you wish to show up for yourself and others in the day ahead. Prepare yourself to move through the day with purpose and positivity.
Guided Meditation on Patient-Acceptance
This is a guided meditation on patient-acceptance, which accompanies the previous episode 43. Using the power of our imagination, we see how approaching challenges with Acceptance, Understanding, Love, and Fortitude, ultimately empower us and bring us greater wellbeing in difficult circumstances.
Four Aspects of Patient-Acceptance
In this episode, David explores kshanti, or patient-acceptance, a pivotal concept in Buddhism. This approach is more than mere tolerance or passive resignation. Instead, it is a wholehearted embracing of our reality in those situations we cannot change. In this audio we dive into four aspects of patient-acceptance: acceptance, understanding, love, and fortitude, seeing how they collectively form a resilient mindset that keeps us anchored amid life’s storms.
Beyond Regret – Four Steps to Purifying Past Behaviours
In this episode, David explores the transformative wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist practice of the Four Opponent Powers. As tools for purifying negative karma, these four steps offer a pragmatic approach to understanding and amending past behaviours. Whether we’d like to purify negative karma or would like a more mindful way to address personal regrets, these […]
Acceptance and Seeing Life as Like a River
In this episode, David explores the profound analogy of seeing life as like a river, and how this view highlights impermanence, acceptance, and the importance of living life in a flexible, fluid way. From understanding the nature of life’s rapids to finding serenity in its gentle flows, David discusses how we can embrace the present and navigate life’s ever-changing currents with grace and acceptance.
Guided Meditation – Body of Light
This is a guided meditation on Tibetan Buddhist practice of ‘Body of Light.’ This practice provides deep rest and relaxation to the mind and body, helping to relax the energy channels and balance the inner energies. It’s also taught as an entryway into more complex or advanced visualisation meditations.
